Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Tifton, Georgia
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TIFT RELAY FOR LIFE
SET FOR FRIDAY
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Local
cancer survivors
and
caregivers
will take the celebratory
first lap
at the annual
American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Tift County
at
7 p.m. Friday, April 26
, at the
E.B. Hamilton Complex
.
Anyone who has ever been diagnosed with
cancer
and their
caregivers
are encouraged to join the celebration. As
survivors
walk, other participants will
cheer
in
support
and
celebration
. Following the lap will be numerous
activities
, including
turkey bowling
, a
cake walk
and a solemn
luminary
ceremony at
9 p.m.
The
Relay For Life
of Tift County is a
community event
where teams and individuals come together to
honor, celebrate
and
raise funds and awareness
in an effort to free the world from cancer.
Money
raised helps the
Cancer Society
provide
information
and
support
while
funding cancer research
.
The
Tift County Relay of Life
can be found on
Facebook
by
clicking here
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Tifton City Council members and city staff gather Tuesday morning at Mi-Lady Bakery to have coffee and conversation with local residents.
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GA CITIES WEEK UNDERWAY
Tifton City Council
members kicked off
Georgia Cities Week
on
Tuesday
with a
"Coffee with the Council"
event at
Mi-Lady Bakery
.
In photo at right, Mayor
Julie Smith
welcomes folks to the event.
Among Cities Week
activities
this week in
Tifton
are a
mock City Council meeting
at
2 p.m. Wednesday
with
Tift County High students
playing the roles of council members;
"Touch-a-Truck"
and
ribbon-cutting
of Tifton's new
dog park
at
5 p.m. Thursday
; a
free showing
of the
movie
"
A Dog's Way Home
" at
8:15 p.m. Friday
in
Fulwood Park
; and a
cleanup
and
recycling
event
Saturday
.
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TIFT SHERIFF'S OFFICE ARRESTS
120 DURING MARCH
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Tift County Sheriff's Office
deputies arrested
120
people, some on multiple charges, during
March
.
Sheriff
Gene Scarbrough
said the
arrests
included
two
fraud charges,
42
charges of parole/probation violation,
38
drug charges,
21
failure-to-appear charges,
two
child support cases,
six
obstruction cases,
12
crimes against a person charges,
24
property crimes charges and
16
non-traffic cases.
Traffic stops conducted by deputies led to
three
charges of driving under the influence,
seven
drug charges,
24
individuals having a suspended or revoked driver’s license as well as the arrest of
one
wanted person.
Deputies
responded to
3,033
calls for service, conducted
645
business and property checks,
1,290
mobile home park and subdivision checks with
27
school checks.
Scarbrough
said deputies served
152
warrants,
114
civil papers and
268
subpoenas.
He added that deputies completed 531 reports, completed 21 domestic reports, worked 28 accidents and patrolled 72,658 miles. The sheriff also said that deputies provided 78 transports, totaling 209 hours and 9,016 miles.
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MOBILE CLINIC BRINGS MEDICAL EXAMS TO NEARBY COMMUNITIES
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Drs.
William Hancock and Cameron Dixon
cut the ribbon on
Tift Regional Health Systems'
new
Mobile Clinic
at the hospital's
Community Events Center
on Carpenter Road Thursday afternoon.
The new
mobile clinic
will travel to
communities
served by Tift Regional to conduct medical exams. The clinic was funded by the
Tift Regional Medical Center Foundation
.
The
six-wheeled
unit, about the size of a bus, will include such
services
as sick and well visits, screenings, education and referrals to specialty care.
For
information
on the new
mobile health clinic
, call
229-388-5690
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FITZGERALD TO DEDICATE MURAL TO NATIVE SON & CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER
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The
City of Fitzgerald
is hosting the
daughter
of the late civil rights advocate
Morris Abram
, a
Fitzgerald native
, when the city
dedicates
a
mural
to Abram at
5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25
, at the
Carnegie Center
courtyard.
Ruth J. Abram
will give a short
lecture
on the
legacy
of her
family
. She is a well-known
speaker
and conceived and directed
New York's Lower East Side Tenement Museum
, the
International Coalition of Sites of Conscience
, the
National Women's Agenda and Coalition
and the
Institute on Women's History
.
The
mural
depicting
Morris Abram
and his
civil rights legacy
was
painted
by
Douglas
native
Dylan Ross
(pictured).
Abram
had fought a
14-year
battle ending at the
U.S. Supreme Court
to
overthrow
the
Georgia system
that gave
rural votes more weight
than urban votes
. In
1963
, the
high court
declared the rule
unconstitutional
, striking a
blow
against
segregation
and
upholding
the principle of
one person, one vote
.
President Kennedy
had appointed
Abram
as the
first general counsel
to the
Peace Corps
, and he also served as
president
of
Brandeis University
, national
president
of the
American Jewish Committee
,
chairman
of the
United Negro College Fund
, and
founder and chairman
of the
UN Watch
.
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The Tifton Rotary Club's Georgia Rotary Student Program (GRSP) student Alberte Dalsro Jørgensen of Denmark, third from left, poses with, from left, club President Marion Curry;
Jørgensen's
sister Victoria, 16; her father Erik
Jørgensen
; Rotarian Andy Marzen; statewide GRSP Chair Rob Kellner; and Tifton GRSP Chair Jeff Gibbs.
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TIFTON ROTARY CLUB HEARS FROM ITS DENMARK STUDENT, TCHS DRAMA CLUB
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The
Tifton Rotary Club's Georgia Rotary Student Program
(GRSP) student
Alberte Dalsro Jørgensen
of
Denmark
told Rotarians
Wednesday
about her
school year
in the
United States
.
"I tasted
boiled peanuts
, and I liked them very much,"
Jørgensen
said, "along with
fried chicken
and
grits
." While attending
ABAC
, she went to a
football game
, a
homecoming parade
, competed on the
winning trivia team
in the
Carnival of Knowledge
, attended the
Tifton-Tift County Library Foundation's Beach Bash
and met the
Swingin' Medallions
and experienced
Hurricane Michael
.
She also traveled to
Savannah, Lake Blackshear, Jekyll Island, Plains
– where she met former
President Jimmy Carter
– the
Kennedy Space Center, Washington, D.C., New
York City
– where she
ice-skated
in
Rockefeller Center
–
Miami, Key West, the Everglades
(seeing her first
alligator
) and
Cuba
.
She said she was glad she attended
ABAC
, where she experienced the
"real" Georgia
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Also at
Wednesday's Rotary meeting
, the
Tift County High School Drama Club
, represented by
Maddie Malcom, Claudia Brown, Julia Ryland and Director Jake Alley
, shared songs from their upcoming programs.
"The Sound of Music"
will be presented
April 25-28
at Tift County High's
Performing Arts Center
with tickets
$10
for adults and
$5
for students. Showtimes are
6 p.m. Thursday, April 25, and Saturday, April 27,
and at
3 p.m. Sunday, April 28
.
The
next weekend
, the
Drama Club
will present
"Steel Magnolias" May 2-5
in the
Drama Room 703
. Tickets will be
$15
, and
reservations
must be made by emailing
jake.alley@tiftschools.com
On
May 2 and 4
, the show will be at
6:30 p.m.
, and
May 5 at 3 p.m.
Claudia Brown
of the Drama Club is the current
State Champion Female Soloist
in
Region 7A
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR CLEANUP SATURDAY
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Volunteers
are being sought for the
Georgia Cities Week Cleanup
scheduled for this
Saturday
.
Keep Tift Beautiful
and the
City of Tifton
are hosting the
Volunteer Cleanup
from
8:30 a.m.-noon
.
Volunteers
will
meet
at the
downtown Cato Knight Parking Lot
for
assignments
. A
free lunch
will be provided for all volunteers
following
the
cleanup
at
Fulwood Park
.
City residents
are also encouraged to
drop off tires and electronics
at the Cato Knight Parking Lot for
disposal
between
8:30 a.m. and noon
.
To
volunteer
for the cleanup event, please
signup
Here!
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GA LEGAL FOOD FRENZY BEGINS
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The
Georgia Legal Food Frenzy
kicked off
this week
and runs through
May 3
.
This
two-week food and fund drive competition
is in
partnership
with the
Georgia attorney general, the State Bar, the Young Lawyers Division and the Georgia Food Bank Association
. The competition is open to anyone in the
legal community
.
Everything raised
stays local
and benefits the
regional food bank
.
One in five children
in Georgia lives in a
food-insecure
household. While nearly
63 percent
of Georgia’s public school students are eligible for either a free or reduced breakfast or lunch each day, only
17 percent
have access to the lunch program during the
summer
.
The
competition
among the legal community is timed to
help
the
food banks
move into
summer
prepared and well-stocked to meet the increased demand for food from working families.
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SRTC's 'MAMA TINA' GETS STATEWIDE HONOR
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Tina “Mama Tina” Strickland
has been awarded with a
Distinguished Service Award
for her
years
of
dedication
to
Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda (FBLA-PBL).
As
Southern Regional Technical College’s
(SRTC) assistant vice president for academic affairs and dean for School of Professional Services,
Strickland
takes ownership of being
“Mama Tina”
to students, faculty and staff alike.
As a
teen
, she first became
involved
in the nationwide student leadership organization when she joined high school’s
FBLA
chapter. After graduation, she sought out her college’s
PBL
chapter.
It was when she returned to
high school
as a
teacher
that she first received the nickname
“Mama Tina.”
She had found her way back to
FBLA
, becoming a
chapter advisor
.
In
1998
, she became an
instructor
on the
Tifton campus
of the former
Moultrie Tech
, the college that
merged
with
Southwest Georgia Technical College
to form
SRTC
. While in a faculty position, she
originated
the
Tifton chapter
of
PBL
, which continues to
nurture emerging business leaders
.
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